Vulnerability Report

CVE-2012-1585

Title: Openstack Nova Denial of Service (DoS)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2012-1585.

CWE Category CWE-399

Published Date Aug 17, 2012

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 4.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

2.07%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2012-1585: OpenStack Compute (Nova) Essex before 2011.3 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (Nova-API log file and disk consumption) via a long server name.

Impacted Vendors

openstack 1

panic 1

Reference Links

http://lwn.net/Alerts/491298/ http://osdir.com/ml/openstack-cloud-computing/2012-03/msg01133.html https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/962515 http://lwn.net/Alerts/491298/ http://osdir.com/ml/openstack-cloud-computing/2012-03/msg01133.html https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/962515

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

4.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2012-1585 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 29, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 11, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

August 17, 2012 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.